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Shell escape a string to safely use it as a token in a shell command (backport of cPython shlex.quote for Python versions 2.x & < 3.3)
The shellescape Python module defines the shellescape.quote()
function that returns a shell-escaped version of a Python string. This is a backport of the shlex.quote()
function from Python 3.8 that makes it accessible to users of Python 3 versions < 3.3 and all Python 2.x versions.
From the Python documentation:
Return a shell-escaped version of the string s. The returned value is a string that can safely be used as one token in a shell command line, for cases where you cannot use a list.
This idiom would be unsafe:
>>> filename = 'somefile; rm -rf ~'
>>> command = 'ls -l {}'.format(filename)
>>> print(command) # executed by a shell: boom!
ls -l somefile; rm -rf ~
quote()
lets you plug the security hole:
>>> command = 'ls -l {}'.format(quote(filename))
>>> print(command)
ls -l 'somefile; rm -rf ~'
>>> remote_command = 'ssh home {}'.format(quote(command))
>>> print(remote_command)
ssh home 'ls -l '"'"'somefile; rm -rf ~'"'"''
The quoting is compatible with UNIX shells and with shlex.split()
:
>>> remote_command = split(remote_command)
>>> remote_command
['ssh', 'home', "ls -l 'somefile; rm -rf ~'"]
>>> command = split(remote_command[-1])
>>> command
['ls', '-l', 'somefile; rm -rf ~']
Include shellescape
in your project setup.py file install_requires
dependency definition list:
setup(
...
install_requires=['shellescape'],
...
)
Then import the quote
function into your module(s) and use it as needed:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from shellescape import quote
filename = "somefile; rm -rf ~"
escaped_shell_command = 'ls -l {}'.format(quote(filename))
FAQs
Shell escape a string to safely use it as a token in a shell command (backport of cPython shlex.quote for Python versions 2.x & < 3.3)
We found that shellescape demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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